1. The History of AV Production and Associated Technologies The Broadcast Years Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

2. The Broadcast Years (Associated Technologies) Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting 1934 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

3. The Broadcast Years (Associated Technologies) Transistors are invented - enabling the miniaturization of electronic devices. 1948 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

4. The Broadcast Years (Associated Technologies) The earliest cable systems are born in remote areas of Pennsylvania and Oregon. Known then as Community Antenna Television, its function was simply to bring TV signals into communities where off-air reception was either non-existent or poor because of interfering mountains or distance 1948 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

5. The Broadcast Years (Associated Technologies) National Association of Radio & Television Broadcasters ratifies a new Television Code establishing guidelines for content and addressing the concerns of social critics. Nearly half the code is devoted to advertising. 1952 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

6. The Broadcast Years (Associated Technologies) Videotape is introduced by Ampex Corp. at a CBS-TV affiliates' session. Most TV shows at the time are produced by the kinescope process. 1956 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

7. The Broadcast Years (Associated Technologies) There are 525 cable TV systems serving 450,000 subscribers in the U.S 1958 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

8. The Broadcast Years (Associated Technologies) FCC issues its first cable regulation: There are about 1 million homes wired for cable in the U.S. at the time. 1964 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

9. The Broadcast Years (Associated Technologies) ARPANET - the first Internet started by the Government. 1969 Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.

10. The Broadcast Years (Associated Technologies) The movie “Forbidden Planet” is released with the first all-electronic film score, composed by Louis and Bebe Barron. How did the development of these broadcast technologies influence society of the first half of the 20 th century? Copyright © Texas Education Agency, 2015. All rights reserved.